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Journey's End is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War.
- Robert Cedric Sherriff
- 1928
Jun 19, 2014 · Many and contradictory are the claims that have been made for “Journey’s End,” the British playwright R. C. Sherriff’s 1928 portrait of life in the trenches and probably still the greatest of...
Feb 23, 2007 · Journey's End. NYT Critic’s Pick. By Ben Brantley. Feb. 23, 2007. The minutes contract and dilate, like wary eyes in shifting light, amid the time-bending silence that pervades the splendid...
Feb 11, 2007 · At the moment of his success — “Journey’s End” made him independently rich — he insisted: “I have not written this play as a piece of propaganda.
Journey's End was based on Sheriff's own experiences as an army officer in the First World War. The story plays out over four days, the 18th to the 21st of March 1918, the start of the German Spring Offensive.
Mar 19, 2018 · Watching Journey’s End is still an intense experience, but it isn’t an anti-war play – it’s a piece by a fairly snobbish writer whose views were old-fashioned in 1929.
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Journey’s End is a play about World War I, which began in 1914 and lasted until 1918. The conflict itself was set off when Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria, was assassinated by a Yugoslavian nationalist attempting to upset Austro-Hungarian rule.
